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Mr. Gramling from Brooklyn, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Band Grows in Brooklyn

My students need a functional drum kit, electric guitars and amps, and a powered mixer to amplify our keyboards.

  • $2,834 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Music critic Virgil Thomson stated, "I've never known a musician who regretting being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down." A diverse, enriching, comprehensive music program is all too uncommon in urban schools - we aim to fix that!

Our eight-year-old, small, public school collects some of the best and brightest students from its surrounding impoverished areas.

We are a screened school for grades six through twelve. Our school’s mission is to immerse students in a college-going culture from sixth grade, and high schoolers often graduate with 30+ college credits from a nearby four-year college. Our population includes many first- and second-generation immigrants, especially from the Caribbean. Most students are eligible for free meals. In music class, most of the students begin with little or no experience reading music or playing an instrument. They are given that opportunity in a one-semester course in music, with an opportunity to join after-school, before-school, and lunchtime music clubs. We’re moving towards offering music electives and ensembles are part of the regular daily schedule.

My Project

This project is designed to help our school build a diverse, comprehensive, and sustainable instrumental music program. The equipment requested is vital to establishing performance ensembles in which students can learn music literacy, composing, improvising, and music theory. Such music programs are common in suburban schools—students get a chance to learn an instrument in fourth or fifth grade, and can participate in a variety of music classes and bands until they graduate high school. This is rarely the case in urban settings such as ours, where schools and administrators are evaluated solely on invalid, outdated tests in “core subjects;” leaving little attention, funding, and scheduling flexibility for the fine arts.My students need a functional drum kit, electric guitars and amps, and a powered mixer to amplify our keyboards.

The students at this school deserve the opportunity to express themselves, enhance their lives, and learn invaluable life skills through a music program.

Funding for this project will expand our music offerings beyond just a semester of learning basic skills, and give these students the priceless opportunities so many children of privilege receive.

Mr. Gramling
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
9600 Series Round Vinyl Seat • Woodwind & Brasswind $92.99 1 $92.99
Drum Key • Woodwind & Brasswind $3.99 1 $3.99
SC-4248 Speed Drum Key • Woodwind & Brasswind $4.49 1 $4.49
EUROPOWER PMP6000 20-Channel Powered Mixer • Woodwind & Brasswind $598.99 1 $598.99
IJX40 Electric Guitar Jumpstart Package • Woodwind & Brasswind $249.99 1 $249.99
Affinity Special Strat and Frontman 15G Amp Value Pack • Woodwind & Brasswind $249.99 1 $249.99
CUBE-80XL 80W 1x12 Guitar Combo Amp • Woodwind & Brasswind $369.00 1 $369.00
5600 Series Double Braced Straight Cymbal Stand • Woodwind & Brasswind $49.99 1 $49.99
Stage Master Single-braced Hi-hat Stand • Woodwind & Brasswind $69.99 1 $69.99
• Woodwind & Brasswind $324.68 1 $324.68
• Woodwind & Brasswind $324.67 1 $324.67

Materials cost

$2,338.77

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$35.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$2,408.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$425.09

Total project goal

$2,833.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,833.94

38 Donors

-$2,825.12

Donations toward project cost

-$2,408.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$416.27

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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